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What do you get when you cross early morning Facebook posts with the flexibility of summer? An awesome, spur of the moment outing! Early this morning I was checking in on Facebook to see what all happened back home while I was sleeping, and I saw a local friend post about what she was going to do today. Needless to say, the kids and I were luck enough to tag along.

... and said a quick hello to Rex before he went to bed. Chris stayed at home working while we went out for the day. We started at the Hokkaido Historical Museum, which is closing for a huge renovation in 19 days. Sorry if you're planning on visiting, this will be off of the touring list. It was the first time I had gotten the audio tour, which wasn't that exciting, so I am glad I have had multiple opportunities to read the signage instead. As we got ready to leave we had our ...

... trains, i'm so impressed with the Shinkansen - the service is sooooo safe, reliable and efficient they can run these 16 carriage 200mph trains as little as 4 minutes apart! Watching the military precision in the stations is one thing but then arriving at your destination EXACTLY on time, literally to the second is pretty mind-blowing. It wasn't 12:09 and 30sec or 12:10 and 30sec, nope 12:10 on the dot.

Friday the AOB class started with a de-brief of yesterday's field trip. Mr. Noa called several sailors/Marines to the front to describe their day and adventures. I kept waiting for him to call Joe and me to give our description of "The Griswolds in Japan" but he never did. Their loss.

The rest of the day was all about driving in Japan. We basically had "Driver's Ed"...Japanese style. (Back on the first day, Monday, we were issued a ...

... there are stairs to the left, a hall right in front of you and 2 bedrooms on the right. (These would be the kids' rooms.) Upstairs is the kitchen and living-room. That neat-o fridge is about the size you'd put in a mid-size RV. Not at all what I was thinking, big ol' US fridge. Nope, tiny little Japanese fridge. Then on the 3rd floor, yes THIRD floor, is the laundry, master bedroom and smaller room ...